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'Mark came out with a comment a few months ago, kind of minimising the idea of privacy,' says Sorkin. The movie's timing is ironic, given the recent furore surrounding Facebook's attitude to personal privacy. In terms of the lead's journey (as projected here, at least), imagine if Michael Corleone had read Wired. Each put their own spin on the story of how Zuckerberg and his closest friend created an online phenomenon – and then spectacularly fell out. Scripter and author wrote concurrently, so while some elements are shared, the correlation is far from precise. Fincher says it's him 'as interpreted' by Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter who admits, 'I don't know the real Mark at all.' The West Wing creator was brought in to adapt Ben Mezrich's book, The Accidental Billionaires, when it was simply a publishing proposal. Jesse Eisenberg refers to his role as “the character of Zuckerberg'.

And the world's youngest-ever billionaire. What it is not about, technically, is Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's co-founder, CEO and president. It's about being young, talented and confused about ambition, invention and betrayal about gaining the world and maybe losing your soul. In April 2009 the director told Empire, 'I don't do Facebook.' Seven months later he was making a movie about it.Įxcept The Social Network isn't really about Facebook, any more than Raging Bull is about boxing. Nor write on his wall, appear in his news feed or ‘like’ his photos. READ MORE: David Fincher Answers Empire Reader Questions All that, and it still thrills thanks to Fincher’s crisp filmmaker, Aaron Sorkin’s whip-smart dialogue, and incredible performances from Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and a scene-stealing Rooney Mara.Īs the film turns 10 (don’t forget to send it a birthday message on Facebook!), take a look back at Empire’s original The Social Network feature – going on set for some of its most notable sequences, and speaking to Fincher, Eisenberg, and Garfield during its creation.

Over the decade since its arrival – which has brought us Cambridge Analytica, ‘Catfishing’, election scandals, and an entire generation raised on social media – the somewhat-fictionalised Facebook origin story has continued to grow in stature, cementing itself as a landmark 21st Century movie, gaining greater thematic and cultural resonance. On release, David Fincher’s The Social Network proved to be an electrifying dramatisation of very recent history – a film that captured a moment in the immediate aftermath of its occurrence, while making clear parallels to the very earliest storytelling traditions in classical tragedies.

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